9.27.2013

I might as well join those indulging him. To be frank, his comments strike me as remarkably ignorant. This country was designed to encourage disagreement in DC. It's certainly nothing new. It also should be expected, given that the policy that is about to be implemented is radical in scope. It can be stated without hyperbole - this law will change your life. Does Senator Harkin expect the folks who disagree with him to remain silent? Eh, who knows.

9.26.2013

An established political idea is like a vampire. Facts, opinions, votes, garlic: Nothing can make it die.

But there is one thing that can kill an established political idea. It will die if the public that embraced it abandons it.

Six months ago, that didn't seem likely. Now it does.

The public's dislike of ObamaCare isn't growing with every new poll
for reasons of philosophical attachment to notions of liberty and
choice. Fear of ObamaCare is growing because a cascade of news suggests
that ObamaCare is an impending catastrophe.

Big labor unions and smaller franchise restaurant owners want out.
UPS dropped coverage for employed spouses. Corporations such as
Walgreens and IBM are transferring employees or retirees into private insurance
exchanges. Because of ObamaCare, the Cleveland Clinic has announced
early retirements for staff and possible layoffs. The federal government
this week made public its estimate of premium costs for the federal
health-care exchanges. It is a morass, revealing the law's
underappreciated operational complexity.

Pretentious Precepts

"First Things means, first, that the first thing to be said about public life is that public life is not the first thing. First Things means, second, that there are first things, in the sense of first principles, for the right ordering of public life."

“A free society cannot survive if we are so free that nothing is expected of us.”